“With the sun rising on the distant sea horizon, she could almost forget the braying of the donkeys.”

“Alan shuddered, emptying a river of balmy man juice into her moistened love canal.”

“Suzanne was kind of slutty, and it was good for every hot woman to have a slutty best friend because being able to judge your friends is one of the greatest gifts of friendship.”

“Come on, Marianna! Women are like Priuses—although we can go for miles and miles without it, sometimes we still need to get filled up!”

“Poetry is not an art, it's a symptom.”

“But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by the surge of that distant African river as it plummets onto black rocks and sends up into the sun a permanent arc of a rainbow.”

“It's easy to forget people are blood and bone. They're not indestructible.”